Nuns Quotes

68 Nuns quotes by 63 unique authors

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to… — Desmond Morris
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented… — Zosia Mamet
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz
JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too. — Kitty Kelley
I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them… — Kitty Kelley
Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh. — Downtown Julie Brown
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny… — Downtown Julie Brown
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere… — Bharati Mukherjee
Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs. — Mary Norris
I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying… — Quincy Jones
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. — Francis Ford Coppola
I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of… — Denis Leary
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. — John Lydon
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher,… — Thurgood Marshall
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. — Anna Quindlen
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There… — Vera Wang
The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns… — Alber Elbaz
It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the… — John Fante
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted… — John Waters
No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns. — Cassandra Clare
It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other. — Wendelin Van Draanen
The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a… — Sarah Vowell

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